Magic Statistics

Saw this over at such small hands. Here are the rules:

1. Go to musicoutfitters.com.
2. Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year.
3. Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favourite. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember (or don't care about).

I followed this back across as many blogs as I could, and almost everyone said the music in their senior year sucked. But, on the whole, I think my year had great music. Maybe it's true what the Boomers say (perish the thought!)–music was better in the '60s. I also notice that my list has fewer songs left unmarked: I had strong opinions about music then. (I've mellowed a little bit.) I couldn't decide on one favourite song; I had to pick three.

1. The Ballad Of The Green Berets, Sgt. Barry Sadler
2. Cherish, Association
3. (You're My) Soul And Inspiration, Righteous Brothers
4. Monday, Monday, The Mama's and The Papa's
5. 96 Tears, ? and The Mysterians
6. Last Train To Clarksville, The Monkees
7. Reach Out I'll Be There, Four Tops
8. Summer In The City, Lovin' Spoonful
9. Poor Side Of Town, Johnny Rivers
10. California Dreamin', The Mama's and The Papa's
11. You Can't Hurry Love, Supremes
12. What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted, Jimmy Ruffin
13. These Boots Are Made For Walkin', Nancy Sinatra
14. Born Free, Roger Williams
15. Strangers In The Night, Frank Sinatra
16. We Can Work It Out, The Beatles
17. When A Man Loves A Woman, Percy Sledge
18. Winchester Cathedral, New Vaudeville Band
19. Hanky Panky, Tommy James and The Shondells
20. Good Lovin', Young Rascals
21. Paint It Black, Rolling Stones
22. My Love, Petula Clark
23. Lightnin' Strikes, Lou Christie
24. Wild Thing, Troggs
25. Kicks, Paul Revere and The Raiders
26. Sunshine Superman, Donovan
27. Sunny, Bobby Hebb
28. Paperback Writer, The Beatles
29. See You In September, Happenings
30. You Keep Me Hangin' On, Supremes
31. Lil' Red Riding Hood, Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs
32. Devil With A Blue Dress On and Good Golly Miss Molly (Medley), Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels
33. Good Vibrations, Beach Boys
34. A Groovy Kind Of Love, Mindbenders
35. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, Dusty Springfield
36. Born A Woman, Sandy Posey
37. Cool Jerk, The Capitols
38. Red Rubber Ball, The Cyrkle
39. B-A-B-Y, Carla Thomas
40. Walk Away Renee, Left Banke
41. Daydream, Lovin' Spoonful
42. Time Won't Let Me, Outsiders
43. Hooray For Hazel, Tommy Roe
44. Sweet Pea, Tommy Roe
45. Bus Stop, Hollies
46. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, B.J. Thomas and The Triumphs
47. I'm Your Puppet, James and Bobby Purify
48. Ain't Too Proud To Beg, Temptations
49. Dirty Water, Standells
50. Elusive Butterfly, Bob Lind
51. I Am A Rock, Simon and Garfunkel
52. Crying Time, Ray Charles
53. Secret Agent Man, Johnny Rivers
54. The Sounds Of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel
55. Lady Godiva, Peter and Gordon
56. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?, Lovin' Spoonful
57. You Baby, The Turtles
58. Barefootin', Robert Parker
59. Homeward Bound, Simon and Garfunkel
60. Uptight (Everything's Alright), Stevie Wonder
61. Bang Bang, Cher
62. Sloop John B, Beach Boys
63. 19th Nervous Breakdown, Rolling Stones
64. Wipe Out, The Surfaris
65. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep, Temptations
66. No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach Is In), T-Bones
67. Just Like Me, Paul Revere and The Raiders
68. Love Makes The World Go Round, Deon Jackson
69. The Pied Piper, Crispian St. Peters
70. Coming On Strong, Brenda Lee
71. Somewhere My Love, Ray Conniff and The Singers
72. Almost Persuaded, David Houston
73. If I Were A Carpenter, Bobby Darin
74. Don't Mess With Bill, Marvelettes
75. Cherry, Cherry, Neil Diamond
76. Working In The Coal Mine, Lee Dorsey
77. Message To Michael, Dionne Warwick
78. Love Is A Hurtin' Thing, Lou Rawls
79. Barbara Ann, Beach Boys
80. Gloria, Shadows Of Knight
81. Dandy, Herman's Hermits
82. Rainy Day Women #12 And 35, Bob Dylan
83. Guantanamera, Sandpipers
84. Psychotic Reaction, Count Five
85. Land Of 1,000 Dances, Wilson Pickett
86. Oh How Happy, Shades Of Blue
87. Woman, Peter and Gordon
88. Five O'clock World, Vogues
89. Black Is Black, Los Bravos
90. Hungry, Paul Revere and The Raiders
91. My World Is Empty Without You, Supremes
92. Baby Scratch My Back, Slim Harpo
93. She's Just My Style, Gary Lewis and The Playboys
94. The More I See You, Chris Montez
95. 634-5789, Wilson Pickett
96. Yellow Submarine, The Beatles
97. Nowhere Man, The Beatles
98. Zorba The Greek, Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass
99. Shapes Of Things, Yardbirds
100. I Fought The Law, Bobby Fuller Four

Latest in an occasional series of prayers by Christians of ages past. Previous entry here; complete list of entries here.

O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire thee with our whole heart, so that, desiring thee, we may seek and find thee; and so finding thee, may love thee; and loving thee may hate those sins which separate us from thee, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.

St Anselm (1033-1109),
Archbishop of Canterbury

Abbot and archbishop, scholar and saint, Anselm was one of the most original thinkers of the Middle Ages and one of the greatest of all medieval theologians.

Although born at Aosta in northern Italy, Anselm became a Benedictine monk, teacher, and abbot at Bec, Normandy. At age 60, he reluctantly accepted appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury, a post he held until his death. He was involved in a series of disputes with King William II (Rufus) and his successors over papal jurisdiction and investiture. In the course of these disputes, Anselm was exiled from England twice during his time as Archbishop.

St Anselm’s surviving writings comprise twelve theological treatises, nineteen prayers, and three meditations, along with 375 of his letters; all rank as literary masterpieces. Many of his works take the form of dialogues with students as he attempted to answer the questions of the young men in his care. His earliest writings were prayers and meditations which transformed the formal liturgical prayer of the early Middle Ages into a more intimate and intense expression of personal devotion to Christ, Mary, and the saints.

With regard to his theological works, Anselm believed, like Augustine, that faith was a necessary foundation and support for philosophical speculation. As he wrote, I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe, but I believe in order that I may understand. Truth is achieved only through "fides quaerens intellectum" ("faith seeking understanding"). He thus proceeded to formulate the "ontological proof" of God’s existence.

The greatest and most influential of all his theological works was Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became A Man), in which Anselm attempts to show on purely rational grounds that the debt incurred by human sin could be properly discharged, and the affront to God's infinite dignity could be properly rectified, only if one who was both fully divine and fully human took it upon himself to offer his own life on our behalf. Thus, he argued that the Atonement was necessary to satisfy the honour and justice of God rather than the older view held since Origen that Christ died to pay a ransom to the devil. Anselm’s view was clearly more fitting than the patristic view, but it has also been subject to criticism because it places the Atonement on a purely legal basis. The Protestant Reformers built upon Anselm’s satisfaction theory of the atonement to develop the doctrine of "penal substitution".

Several of St Anselm’s theological treatises are available online here and here. (At the latter, search the page for "Anselm").

This doesn't look good. A sign has gone up on a vacant corner lot in downtown Whitehorse.

I don't know who Joe is, but the phone number belongs to the local office of Manulife Financial. Directly across the street is the main Government of Yukon building. A lot of government employees work there, and the Legislative Assembly meets inside, too.